CVE-2018-10646

HIGH

CyberGhost 6.5.0.3180 - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

CyberGhost 6.5.0.3180 for Windows suffers from a SYSTEM privilege escalation vulnerability through the "CG6Service" service. This service establishes a NetNamedPipe endpoint that allows arbitrary installed applications to connect and call publicly exposed methods. The "ConnectToVpnServer" method accepts a "connectionParams" argument that provides attacker control of the OpenVPN command line. An attacker can specify a dynamic library plugin that should run for every new VPN connection attempt. This plugin will execute code in the context of the SYSTEM user.

References (1)

Core 1

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0004
EPSS Percentile 13.3%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-732
Status published
Products (1)
cyberghostvpn/cyberghost 6.5.0.3180
Published May 02, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026